The Midnight Court. A New Translation by Cosslett O’Cuinn. With illustrations by John Verling. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1982. Pp, 87. Publisher’s plain velum boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. A nice bright copy in pictorial dust jacket. Limited Numbered Edition of 500 Copies, Signed by Author and Illustrator. 

The Midnight Court is an extended satiric poem that assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century Catholic Ireland under British colonial rule.